timequake

English

Etymology

From time +‎ quake.

Noun

timequake (plural timequakes)

1. (science fiction) A disturbance in the flow of time.
   • 1996 November 16, Mike Abernathy, “Re: faster than light travel”, in sci.physics.electromag‎^[1] (Usenet), message-ID <56la8t$5@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>:

     Or you can have a revisable universe with one timeline (see Hogan's Thrice Upon a Time or Milennium^[sic] by (I think) Joe Haldeman for the general idea) and in which your actions can "rewrite" the past from that point on. Here, if you shoot your grandfather, you generate a "timequake" in which something ugly happens. Probably you disappear, but there may be other side-effects as the universe works it out, which is, I think, what you are reffering^[sic] to as the "great expense".

   • 2008, Deanna J. McDaniel, Gentle Reads: Great Books to Warm Hearts and Lift Spirits, Grades 5-9, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 217:

     Finding herself in the middle of a “timequake,” she discovers another world—an alternate universe. Will Mary find a way to return to the world she left?